Analysis Of Soliloquies In Hamlet

A soliloquy is a type of speech in drama it is defined by the dictionary as “an act of speaking one 's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play”. This literary technique is often used to reveal insight to the audience that would not be known any other way. Throughout the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the main character Prince Hamlet has seven soliloquies that reveal his character and traits. In the play Prince Hamlet returns to Denmark from school after learning of his father, King Hamlets, death. He soon discovers from his fathers ghost, however, that his death was not of natural causes, that King Hamlet was in fact murdered by his own brother, Claudius, who is now king, and who has married Prince Hamlets mother only two months shy of his brothers death. Hamlet promise his father’s ghost that he will avenge his murder. Through out the five acts of the play readers watch as Hamlets falls deeper into his suicidal depression, they see his indecisive lack of action, and seeming madness from his struggle between what is rational, and delusional thought. As the play opens it is clear hamlet is grief stricken over the loss of his father, and marriage of his uncle to his mother, Queen Gertrude. He is completely distraught and even wishes he would die; in Hamlets very first soliloquy he states “O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and …show more content…
The soliloquies reveal Hamlets deep depression, indecisiveness, and incredibly complex thought process. Hamlet struggles with suicidal thoughts through out the play, he also struggles to actually commit to avenging his father, and mainly he struggles with himself he has a constant battle in his head back in fourth with what is right and wrong. Shakespeare wrote the character of hamlet beautiful using his soliloquies to reveal so much of his